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<div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div>On Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 06:08:57 PM EDT, Nina Trotto via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:<div><span style="font-size:14px;">>We’re currently discussing at my theater what our policy will be for various kinds of software reimbursement</span></div><div><span style="font-size:14px;">> requests we’ve been getting from designers</span></div></div>
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</div></div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I think a contractor's software tools are his own, and should normally be built into his pricing structure and not billed as a separate item. Though, of course, anything can be negotiated. If you were to require specific software that the designer didn't have, you could just find a different designer, or offer them money to get a license (perhaps just a few month subscription), or expect them to eat the cost.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">Dropbox is a different matter. It sounds like you are already hosting a drop box account for them to place their work. So, you already are paying for that.<div><br></div><div class="ydpa6c53688signature"><div style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;">-Joe</div></div></div></div><br></div></body></html>